The Passage

1Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

2And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

(Matthew 5:1–3)

The Notes

As a result of His teaching, preaching, and healing the sick throughout Israel, Jesus’ fame attracted great multitudes. After Jesus retreated to the hill country to pray in solitude, He emerged to find a large crowd waiting for Him.​He taught them in this discourse, known as the “Sermon on the Mount.”

The Terms

“blessed” [makarios]: (1) pertaining to being fortunate or happy because of circumstances, fortunate; (2) pertaining to being especially favored, blessed, fortunate, happy, privileged.

William Arndt, Frederick W. Danker, and Walter Bauer,A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 610–11.

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